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Comment by samstave | Hacker News Reader

Stop paying taxes.

Well, taxes go towards some stuff I appreciate... plus I would probably be thrown in jail. So not sure that is a solution :p

Conscientious objection to taxation should be a thing though.

It is: it's called "renouncing your citizenship and moving to Somalia". Go ahead!

Oh, you meant to say that you want to be able to object to taxation but still freeload on all the benefits. Sorry, no.

I object to most of the roughly 50% of my income that is taken from me and can't say I've ever been called a freeloader... That's an interesting point of view you have there; "either don't be a US citizen or never complain about tax policy".

"Conscientious objection" to taxes means you wouldn't pay taxes, it doesn't mean you just complain about it. You can't do that and stay a US Citizen and not go to jail.

I guess I just don't care enough to ruin my life over it. It's a pretty interesting thing to think about, actually. To think that a bloody revolution was sparked over much less than what we put up with today... It's almost like Stockholm Syndrome.

That revolution was fought because there was no representation in the body that levied the taxes. We do have representation in the body that levies taxes now.

Tell that to the people of Washington DC! (No voting congresspeople)

I recently read that if you live in puerto rico full time for a tax year, you don't have to pay federal income tax, or something like that.

Apparently a lot of bitcoin people are considering the move. Move there for a year, sell your bitcoin, move back or something like that?

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